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nger ‘19 hails from Houston, Texas. She is an Art History and Psychology double major. She is a member of the club Spoon Colby, and works with the Family Violence Project in Maine. In her free time she enjoys Netflix and chilling. Favorite Life of Pablo song: “Ultralight Beam.”
Nora Hill ’18 hails from Boston, MA. She is double-majoring in Art History and Global Studies with a concentration in human rights and social justice, and will be studying abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France this spring. She is the co-chair of the CCMA Student Advisory Board and Production Manager of Powder and Wig, Colby’s student-run theatre group. Nora is a fifth-generation Colby student, an avid Gilmore Girls fan, and loves baking cupcakes. Favorite Life of Pablo song: “Famous.”
Her reflections on this Humanities Lab have been published in The Lantern.
Kat Restrepo ’18 is an American Studies and Art History double major hailing from Columbus, Ohio. She will be studying Art History in Florence this spring at New York University’s campus. At Colby, she is a member of the field hockey and track & field teams, junior class co-president, co-president of Mediocre a cappella group, a CCAK mentor, and a member of the Museum Student Advisory Board. In her spare time, Kat loves making Spotify playlists and thoroughly enjoys her HBONow account. Favorite Life of Pablo song: “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1.”
Jina Stanfill ‘18 hails from Manhattan Beach, California. She is majoring in Art History and American Studies. At Colby, she is a member of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, works at the museum, and will be studying in Aix-en-Provence this spring. In her spare time, she enjoys baking and cooking for friends and spending way too much time reading fashion blogs. Favorite Life of Pablo Song: “No More Parties in LA.”
Clara Nuckols ’18, is from Los Angeles, California. She is an American Studies and Art History major, and will be studying at the University College London this spring. She works for the Colby Fund as a student caller and volunteers for Colby Cares About Kids. In her spare time, she enjoys drinking coffee and watching Downton Abbey. Favorite Life of Pablo song: “Waves.”
Véronique Plesch is Professor of Art History at Colby College. Born in Argentina and raised in Switzerland, she holds advanced degrees from the University of Geneva in Art History and French Literature and from Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D. in Art History in 1994, the year she joined Colby faculty. She is the author of several books, edited volumes, and over forty articles in French, Italian, and English, on subjects ranging from late medieval iconography to Alpine art, and from Passion plays to early modern graffiti, with forays into contemporary art. She is completing her third term as the President of the International Association of Word and Image Studies and during her spare time teaches Jazzercise.
Ellen Freeman holds a M.Ed. degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Maine. She was an Instructional Technologist with Academic ITS at Colby College from 2008-2013 and collaborated with the Colby Libraries and Marilyn R. Pukkila on two ethnographic research studies at Colby that were supported and published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Ellen maintains a deep enjoyment of and belief in ethnographic research as a means to deepen perspectives. She was an Instructional Designer for Red Hat, Inc from 2013-2014 and returned to Colby in her current role as Teaching and Learning Applications Coordinator in June of 2015. Ellen lives in Mid-Coast Maine with her family.
Mark Wardecker joined Colby in August 2015 as an Instructional Technologist. As a member of the Academic Information Technology Services group, he consults with faculty on the wide spectrum of educational technologies available to them and helps them manage effective technology environments for instruction in support of specific curricular goals. He also serves as a key liaison to other curricular support groups at the College. He has worked in higher education since 2004. First, as Dickinson College’s Digital Services Librarian, and more recently, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration and Acting Classics Librarian at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He has contributed (with Emilia Marcyk and Angela Stangl) to E-Learning and the Academic Library (McFarland, 2016) and (with Ed Webb) to Doctor Who and Philosophy (Open Court, 2010), as well as having written other nonfiction and short fiction.
Brassaï Plesch ’21 is a vizsla from Dover-Foxcroft, ME.